Metrograph Pictures Strikes North America Deal With Charades For Jérémy Clapin’s Berlinale Sci-Fi Movie ‘Meanwhile On Earth’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: New York-based distributor Metrograph Pictures has acquired North American rights to French director Jérémy Clapin’s sci-fi drama Meanwhile on Earth following its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section last month.
The lost sibling tale marks the first live-action feature for Clapin after his 2019 Oscar-nominated, Netflix-acquired animated movie I Lost My Body, which originally world premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week and also won the Cristal for Best film at the Annecy International Animation Festival in 2019 The drama follows a young woman who is struggling to come to terms with the disappearance of her brother, an astronaut who vanished during his first mission.
While stargazing one night, she is shocked to receive contact from her him, but her joy is short-lived when she learns of the dark and troubling forces behind his reappearance, forcing her to confront the lengths she will go for the brother she once feared was gone forever.
Deadline critic Damon Wise hailed the film as “a strange, poetic, and endearingly surreal meditation on the counterintuitive ways in which we react when confronted with loss”. “Jérémy Clapin is a hugely talented filmmaker, and he has created an exciting and inspiring new work of science fiction.
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